About Quantum Leaps
Quantum Leaps, LLC is an embedded software company dedicated to delivering quantum leaps in quality and productivity for embedded systems programming. Our flagship products include the QP Real-Time Event Frameworks (RTEFs), the QM Model-Based Design (MBD) tool, and the QTools collection. Together, this integrated software ecosystem empowers developers to leverage modern event-driven architectures, hierarchical state machines, model-based design, and automatic code generation in resource-constrained embedded systems such as ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers.
Since 2005, our elegant, efficient, and open-source tools have provided a competitive edge to hundreds of companies across diverse markets worldwide.
Professional Open Source
Quantum Leaps, LLC is a second-generation professional open source company based on the sustainable single-vendor commercial open source business model
In contrast to most of the first-generation open source companies, Quantum Leaps owns all the intellectual property in the provided software. Therefore, alongside the open-source licensing, we can also offer traditional commercial licensing to all customers interested in retaining the proprietary character of their software.
This strictly quality-controlled, single-vendor commercial open source business model combines the best of the open-source development style with the best of the proprietary software model. Such a combination makes open source a safe choice for embedded systems vendors. The benefits include the accountability for the licensed intellectual property, professional documentation, and technical support expected of a traditional software vendor, as well as transparent development, availability of source code, and active community inherent in open-source projects.
How We Operate
The company operates on the following main principles:
Practical, useful design that works
Model-based design and other modern approaches to software development deliver genuine advantages, yet they are often disconnected from practical realities. At Quantum Leaps, we cut through the noise to provide software that is pragmatic, efficient, and battle-tested — proven to work reliably in real-world systems.
Embedded software must be open
Every component of our software deployed in embedded devices is openly available in source code, ensuring you can fully understand, adapt, recompile, and debug it as needed.
Open source must be safe to use
We retain full ownership of the intellectual property in our software. This allows us to offer closed-source licensing along with the accountability expected of a professional vendor, giving commercial customers the option to preserve the proprietary nature of their solutions.
We trust our customers
Our software and documentation are free to download from public open-source repositories (currently GitHub and SourceForge) — with no registration required. We trust you because the sustainability of our business is ultimately in your own best interest as well.
Our customers are are investors
Our customers fund our daily operations by purchasing commercial licenses for our software. We answer to them — not investors, the stock market, or a board of directors.
No secret prices or hidden fees
We believe all of our customers are entitled to the best price we can offer. We treat everyone equally and we don’t offer special prices. Our prices are open and transparent, published right on our site.
Software development can be fun
Our software and tools make development enjoyable again. By working at a higher level of abstraction with active objects and state machines, you avoid the frustration of tangled “spaghetti” code and the endless race‑condition debugging that plague projects built on traditional shared‑state concurrency with an RTOS.
Leadership
Dr. Miro Samek - Founder and CEO
Dr. Miro Samek is a recognized expert in programming real‑time embedded (RTE) systems. His practical books on UML state machines and active objects (actors) helped introduce the discipline of modern embedded systems programming. He has authored dozens of technical articles for Embedded Systems Programming/Design, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, C/C++ Users Journal, and, more recently, online for Embedded.com. Miro has also presented at numerous Embedded Systems Conferences.
Since 2013, he has taught the ongoing “Modern Embedded Systems Programming” course on YouTube, which remains popular with engineers worldwide. His industry experience spans safety‑critical software development at GE Medical Systems to real‑time embedded design at Silicon Valley companies specializing in GPS technologies. Today, his software powers billions of embedded devices across the globe.
Miro earned his Ph.D. in nuclear physics at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany.